| Humorous Phases of Funny Faces | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | J. Stuart Blackton |
| Produced by | J. Stuart Blackton |
| Starring | J. Stuart Blackton |
| Distributed by | Vitagraph Company of America |
Release date |
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Running time | 3 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | silent |
Humorous Phases of Funny Faces is a 1906shortsilentanimated cartoon directed byJames Stuart Blackton and generally regarded by film historians as the first animated film recorded onstandard picture film.[1][2]
In the cartoon, animated hand-drawn scenes appear on a chalkboard, including a clown playing with a hat and a dog jumping through a hoop. In the beginning, though, the cartoonist's hands are included, too, as he draws the first several lines on the chalkboard in standard live action. From there, the stop-motion technique is used to show what appears to be drawings completing—and then moving—by themselves with no artist on screen.
Stop-motion as well ascutout animation are used, just asEdwin Porter moved his letters inHow Jones Lost His Roll, andThe Whole Dam Family and the Dam Dog. However, there is a very short section of the film where things are made to appear to move by altering the drawings themselves from frame to frame.
The film moves at 20 frames per second.
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